The Forster Flag
New York: Doyle New York, 2014. Hardcover. Red & cream smooth decorated boards, 56 pp., color & BW illustrations. VG+. Item #155708
Issued in conjunction with a 2014 auction of the famous Forster flag, a red and cream striped banner flown by Massachusetts militiaman and First Lieutenant Samuel Forster (1739/40-1794) during the American Revolutionary War. The Forster Flag is an American Revolutionary War-era silk flag comprised of a field of fine red silk, a canton of numberous stitched lengths of a differing red silk, and thirteen applied white stripes (six to the obverse and seven to the reverse). The Forster Flag has long been accompanied by a pair of tassels and an antique dress sash. [from the auction catalogue, p. 6].
OCLC: 875419950
Price: $29.97